I know Perelman will hate this (don't blame him!) but, short reply to
~!~.
Jared on an hour long debate with David Rohde on Australian Broadcasting
Corp. denied ANY massacre in Srbenica. 7,000, you say? Imperialist lies.
Suppose he would deny this too. Covered also in the London Sunday Times,
if memory serves.
Michael Pugliese
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:31 AM
Subject: [ASDnet] Kosovo Revisionism
> Just to remind people of old debates.
>
> Subject: Kosovo Truck With 50 Bodies Found in Danube During NATO Air War
>
>
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> > Agence France-Presse
> > May 3, 2001
> >
> > Kosovo Truck With 50 Bodies Found in Danube During NATO Air War
> >
> > BELGRADE, May 3 (AFP) -- A Kosovo Albanian refrigerator truck containing
> > 50 bodies, including women and children, was pulled from the Danube
river
> > in April 1999 during NATO's air war against Yugoslavia, a daily reported
> > Thursday.
> >
> > A diver from eastern Serbia revealed the "top secret" discovery
> > to a local magazine describing his horror at finding the bodies piled
> > in the truck's compartment, the daily Vecernje Novosti reported.
> >
> > "Bodies started to slither out of the refrigerator. There were many
> > bodies of women, children and elderly people. Some of the women were
> > dressed in traditional Muslim dress, while some children and elderly
> > people were naked," said Zivadin Djordjevic.
> >
> > "The scene was horrifying," he added.
> >
> > The truck, registered in the western Kosovo town of Pec to a
> > company with an Albanian name, was pulled from the river at Tekije,
> > some 250 kilometers (180 miles) east of Belgrade.
> >
> > The truck was reportedly discovered on April 6, 1999, less than
> > two weeks after the start of the 11-week NATO bombing campaign against
> > Yugoslavia to end Belgrade's repression of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian
> > majority.
> >
> > Yugoslav forces and Serbian paramilitaries were accused by the West
> > of committing widespread atrocities against ethnic Albanian civilians
> > in Kosovo during their fight with ethnic Albanian guerrillas of Kosovo
> > Liberation Army (KLA) in 1998 and 1999.
> >
> > The report, widely picked up in the Belgrade media, appeared to be
> > first of its kind ever to appear in the Serbian press.
> >
> > Local police and court officials were immediately informed about the
> > case, as was the leadership of the Serbian interior ministry, namely
> > General Vlastimir Djordjevic, deputy interior minister at the time, the
> > magazine Timocka Krimi Revija said.
> >
> > "Soon an order arrived from the top to classify all information
> > related to the case as top secret," said the magazine, run by a former
> > local policeman.
> >
> > The magazine also listed the names of local police and court
officials
> > who it said had been notified about the case.
> >
> > "When we came the next morning to conduct an investigation, we were
> > told by Milan Stevanovic, a senior local police official, that nothing
> > had happened," a local magistrate was quoted as telling the magazine.
> >
> > The original truck plates from Pec were destroyed after being
> > replaced by local ones, the magazine said, adding that the bodies
> > were loaded on to another truck with Belgrade plates and driven away
> > to an unknown destination.
> >
> > The original truck was transported to a training center for
> > special police in a nearby village, and blown up with 30 kilograms of
> > explosives. Only small pieces could still be seen in a nearby orchard,
> > the magazine said.
> >
> > **************************
> Ian Williams
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> The preceding is a personal opinion. Try not to post more than daily.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:52 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:11304] Re: Re: Economic Terrorism---Michel Chossudovsky
> > Strange bedfellows dept. Chossudovsky and Jared Isreal are cited in
the
> >newsbriefs section of the latest issue of The New American, the magazine
of
> >the far right mainstay in the USA, the John Birch Society. Two pgs.
before,
> >Gerhard Schroeder is identified as a Marxist (!) but, not Chossudovsky.
> > Michaeel Pugliese
>
> What is so strange about this? Israel Shahak's anti-Zionist critiques are
> found on neo-Nazi websites, as are Norman Finkelstein's. One can not
> control such things, nor is there any need to. What there is a need to
> control is the kind of smear job that makes serious discussion of
> Yugoslavia impossible. Pugliese specializes in this sort of thing on the
> 119 mailing lists he is subbed to. Not only this, he emails Jared Israel
> with these sorts of provocations all the time, as he did me until I told
> him to go away.
>
> Louis Proyect
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